The new design could assist the elderly as they age in place at home.

A new approach could enable intuitive robotic helpers for household, workplace, and warehouse settings.

The Tactile Vega-Lite system, developed at MIT CSAIL, streamlines the tactile chart design process; could help educators efficiently create these graphics and aid designers in making precise changes.

A new surgical procedure gives people more neural feedback from their residual limb. With it, seven patients walked more naturally and navigated obstacles.

The startup Augmental allows users to operate phones and other devices using their tongue, mouth, and head gestures.

A new study suggests optogenetics can drive muscle contraction with greater control and less fatigue than electrical stimulation.

A new MIT system could help astronauts conserve energy and extend missions on the lunar surface.

Screen-reader users can upload a dataset and create customized data representations that combine visualization, textual description, and sonification.

With help from a large language model, MIT engineers enabled robots to self-correct after missteps and carry on with their chores.

With Style2Fab, makers can rapidly customize models of 3D-printable objects, such as assistive devices, without hampering their functionality.